demurrer

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Demurrer in criminal cases still exists, but is now seldom resorted to.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

I would therefore have the Demurrer consider what a strange Figure she will make, if she chances to get over all Difficulties, and comes to a final Resolution, in that unseasonable Part of her Life.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

You have described the Pict in your Forty-first; the Idol, in your Seventy-Third; the Demurrer, in your Eighty-Ninth; the Salamander, in your Hundred and Ninety-Eighth.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph